Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-16
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

Chinese smallpox patient died at the
pest-house on Tuesday.
Some of the Masonic excursionists to
Honolulu have returned
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen left
for the East Tuesday evening.
Fifty-three Chinese were landed on Tues
day on writs of haoeas corpus.
Agnes Mucke, a domestic, was acct
dentially asphyxiated at 923 Grove street.
J. S. Tibbals, the successful contractor
for section of the seawall, is embarrassed
for want of rock.
The creditors of j. Baum & Co., bank
rupts, have sued the members of the late
firm for S97, $50 SO.
The Occidental Coursing Club is in favor
of a project TO establish a coursing park
near Redwood City.
Trouble has again been experienced by
Government officers in dislodging egg
hunters and sealers from the Farallones.
| An effort is to be made to reduce the
revenue of the Home for Inebriates from
the fines of drunkards in the Police Courts.
The agent of the Denver and Rio Grande
was detected, it is alleged. in making a cut
of $l2 in the third-c class rates to New FORK.
Louis Dockery has been sentenced to one
! year in the Alameda county jail and to pay
| fine of $500 for assault to murder Peter
Matthews.
Christopher Johnson, who was tripped
up by vaquero on the 9th of last month,
died in the City and County Hospital from
the effects of the fall.
Alleged Blythe heirs have filed their an
swer to Florence Blythes second amended
complaint. Some of them give curious
accounts of Blythe's supposed career.
William Bauer, the burglar who shot at
Sergeant Wilson, of Oakland, was yesterday
sentenced to five years for burglary and
one year for assault with a deadly weapon.
The charge against Frederick Morrie, of
! assaulting Jane I. Vance while uLder the
| influence OF drugs, was dismissed in Oak
land yesterday, and the couple were mar
ried.
The Auditor estimates that the city and
county will receive $610 900 from the State
| for school purposes for the next fiscal year,
against $542, Asa received for the current
year.
There is no immediate probability of a
change in the overland railroad time. The
matter is to be-laid over until Mr.. Potter,
Vice President of the Union Pacific, visits
the State.
The Executive Committee of the Fourth
of July celebration has selected K. p. Ham
mond, Jr., for Grand Marshal of the
parade. The United States troops will
turn out, as well as the various parlors of
the n. S. G. w.
The South Pacific Coast Railroad Com
pany has filed an answer to W.'R. Robin
sons charges concerning Communication
tickets at the Office of the Railroad Com
missiouers. 1t consists of formal denial
of the complaint.
The experimental running of cars by
electricity was tried on Tuesday for the
first time on the short track that has been
laid for that purpose on Folsom street, at
the corner of Nineteenth. 1t proved suo-
cess. Twenty people were on board of the
car, and it ran the entire distance of the
track without any impeachment. Further
tests will be made.
The appointment of Lubbock as In
spector of Steam Vessels was a surprise to
politicians. The candidates were Captains
knight and Burns, of San Francisco, and
Captain John Hackett, of Oakland. Knight
was backed by Hearst and opposed by
Hager, and Burns was Buckley's man.
Hackett was Endorsed by Fair, Field, Irish
Lawton and others. Lubbock is the friend
of Bill English, and is employed by the
HaIbor Commissioners. He resides in
Alameda. Hackett's friends were very
sanguine. The Office is worth $4,000
| wear,